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Marriage Foods

Korovai

The Ukrainian wedding bread is so beautiful, it's displayed near the altar.

The Khauwale Patankar sweet shop in Pune makes sugar jewelry every year.

In India, a Sweet Tradition Calls for Head-To-Toe Sugar Jewelry

Maharashtra's halwa dagine symbolizes hope for future blessings.

Shoma Abhyankar December 9, 2021

'Kay's Fudge' Gravestone

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

Montebore

By the 21st century, one lone woman held the recipe for what might have been da Vinci’s cheese of choice.

Burying Bourbon

In the American South, some believe it deters rain on one's wedding day.

This sandwich cake comes with prawns, egg, caviar, and cucumber.

Smörgåstårta

Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”

Whole Roasted Camel

Typically reserved for special occasions, the massive meal can be bought for a hefty sum at restaurants in Qatar.

Piki, thinner than the paper towel its wrapped inside.

Piki Bread

This ultra-thin blue corn delicacy is traditionally eaten at Hopi weddings.

Czernina

Duck blood makes this Polish soup extra rich.

Muratina

This crisp, sour Kenyan brew is made by fermenting the “sausage” fruit.

Muqmad

This camel jerky is a lifeline for Somali nomads during times of drought.

Mutura

Making this sausage of meat, tripe, and blood is its own festive occasion in Kenya.

The French wedding cake.

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Bowls of tiết canh laid out ahead of a feast.

Vietnamese Blood Soup

Tiết canh is a sour, cool, and gelatinous breakfast.

Kala is Hindi for "black," an apt descriptor for these inky fried balls.

Kala Jamun

These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.

Smen in a Marrakesh souk.

Smen

This Moroccan butter ferments underground for years and smells like blue cheese.

One of the successful couples, sitting in the ceremonial chair (with dog).

Dunmow Flitch Trials

Only the happiest married couples can win this huge piece of bacon.

Sometimes the entire tree is cut down to harvest the sap.

Palm Wine

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.